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Geodata Vogelsbergkreis
Landkreis Vogelsbergkreis · Hesse
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Ready-made files from this server — one click, one download, uniform nationwide in EPSG:25832.
🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand · with a free account |
| Parcels only | on demand · with a free account |
| Building footprints only | on demand · with a free account |
| Land use only | on demand · with a free account |
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Smaller areas, such as most municipalities, can be downloaded without signing in with a click right here on this page. Large areas such as whole districts and state packages are available with a free account, and scripts or GIS software need an API key. Account and API key →
⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
1,616 tiles of 1 km² each (3.84 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,616 tiles, JSON) | 3.84 GB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
1,616 tiles of 1 km² each (4.42 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,616 tiles, JSON) | 4.42 GB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
1,616 tiles of 1 km² (1.09 GB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,616 tiles, JSON) | 1.09 GB |
Directly from the state
There is no copy of these datasets here: the tables link per tile to the server of the responsible state agency.
✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies
1,616 tiles, period 2024-08-12–2025-08-26.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (1,616 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map
latest acquisition 2026-10-05.
| Access | Source |
|---|---|
| Time series since 2015 (JSON) | directly from LGLN geoLabs |
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Land use in Landkreis Vogelsbergkreis
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the district area of 1,458 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 703 km² | 48.2 % |
| Forest | 567 km² | 38.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 55 km² | 3.8 % |
| Residential land | 29 km² | 2.0 % |
| Road transport | 25 km² | 1.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 16 km² | 1.1 % |
| Water bodies | 15 km² | 1.0 % |
| Woodland | 13 km² | 0.9 % |
| Industry & commerce | 12 km² | 0.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 9 km² | 0.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 435 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 282 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 203 ha | 0.1 % |
| Rail transport | 143 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 99 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Landkreis Vogelsbergkreis
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 157.4 m |
| Mean | 373.7 m |
| Maximum | 773.7 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Vogelsbergkreis
- Alsfeld
- Antrifttal
- Feldatal
- Freiensteinau
- Gemünden (Felda)
- Grebenau
- Grebenhain
- Herbstein
- Homberg (Ohm)
- Kirtorf
- Lauterbach (Hessen)
- Lautertal (Vogelsberg)
- Mücke
- Romrod
- Schlitz
- Schotten
- Schwalmtal
- Ulrichstein
- Wartenberg
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.